455. Assign Cookies(分饼干)（leetcode）

Assume you are an awesome parent and want to give your children some cookies. But, you should give each child at most one cookie. Each child i has a greed factor g_i, which is the minimum size of a cookie that the child will be content with; and each cookie j has a size s_j. If s_j >= g_i, we can assign the cookie j to the child i, and the child i will be content. Your goal is to maximize the number of your content children and output the maximum number.

Note:
You may assume the greed factor is always positive.
You cannot assign more than one cookie to one child.

Example 1:

Input: [1,2,3], [1,1]

Output: 1

Explanation: You have 3 children and 2 cookies. The greed factors of 3 children are 1, 2, 3. 
And even though you have 2 cookies, since their size is both 1, you could only make the child whose greed factor is 1 content.
You need to output 1.

 

Example 2:

Input: [1,2], [1,2,3]

Output: 2

Explanation: You have 2 children and 3 cookies. The greed factors of 2 children are 1, 2. 
You have 3 cookies and their sizes are big enough to gratify all of the children, 
You need to output 2.

题目描述：每个孩子都有一个满足度，每个饼干都有一个大小，只有饼干的大小大于等于一个孩子的满足度，该孩子才会获得满足。求解最多可以获得满足的孩子数量。

给一个孩子的饼干应当尽量小又能满足该孩子，这样大饼干就能拿来给满足度比较大的孩子。因为最小的孩子最容易得到满足，所以先满足最小的孩子。

证明：假设在某次选择中，贪心策略选择给当前满足度最小的孩子分配第 m 个饼干，第 m 个饼干为可以满足该孩子的最小饼干。假设存在一种最优策略，给该孩子分配第 n 个饼干，并且 m < n。我们可以发现，经过这一轮分配，贪心策略分配后剩下的饼干一定有一个比最优策略来得大。因此在后续的分配中，贪心策略一定能满足更多的孩子。也就是说不存在比贪心策略更优的策略，即贪心策略就是最优策略。

方法一：贪心算法

保证每次操作都是局部最优的，并且最后得到的结果是全局最优的。

时间复杂度：o(nlogⁿ)